Posted on 06/06/2018 4:31:42 PM PDT by mairdie
The art of Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) from 1896 to 1919, shown to the music of Scott Joplin (The Entertainer; The Easy Winners). Leyendecker was the face of Saturday Evening Post before Norman Rockwell. He created the marketing image of "The Arrow Man" for Arrow Shirts.
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Hey...I heard General George Custer died in an Arrow shirt. ;o)
That was actually rather brilliant!
Great stuff! I made a comment on Youtube.
Many, many thanks, Dl, for your kindness. The media of the first WW made sure that the population supported the troops. Would that today’s could learn something from them. My great grandfather served in France, and I loved seeing the military covers.
Beautiful artwork. It was a time when men were men and women were women. Although there have been so many worthwhile advances over the past 100 years or so, we have also gone terribly backwards in some important ways.
I so very much enjoy seeing his work. I completely fell in love with his images. Even his earliest studies when he was in Paris are wonderful. I took a writing course that suggested putting up magazine photos that seemed to be your characters over your keyboard, and I would be hard pressed to choose just a few of the glorious men and women he portrayed. The women are exquisite and the men are pure male. YES!
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Wonderful, as always.
Thank you for making these videos.
I’m entertaining myself today with some of your oldies during the 1,000th month of lockdown.
This one really blew me away. All the framing, composition, postures and little tics so heralded in Norman Rockwell’s work (and thought by me to be original) actually originated with this guy.
Amazing how life picks winners and relegates others to obscurity seemingly on a whim. What—was Rockwell a Democrat?
https://www.nrm.org/2017/02/what-would-rockwell-say/
But remember that Rockwell came later, so the people who adored Leyendecker might have been dying off by then. Newest usually wins. Who among today’s young even know Rockwell?
They were also painting for different audiences. Leyendecker was for the roaring twenties, elegant rich. Rockwell for middle America.
Personally, I prefer Leyendecker. And I think he’s making a comeback.
464 views on Leyendecker the 20’s; 1 like
1.9K on Leyendecker earlier; 49 likes
927 views on Rockwell; 8 likes
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By the way, the viral hit on Bouguereau is over. Someone objected to nudes in the art and they put an age constraint on it after 1.25 million views, 1468 likes and bringing in 2.3K subscribers. I appealed and they said that even though the video doesn’t violate YouTube guidelines, some countries have different standards than we do. ???????
But it was fun!
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I’m spending my time with fandom videos now. I never finished making a digital final version of a British spy show video to Eye of the Tiger and am now trying to move the work from one entire editing system that slowed into molasses so you could get your tea brewed and drunk while it moved from one position on the song to another. But when I get it into the other system, I’ll lose all the episodes information from where I got each clip, so I’m TEDIOUSLY typing in every cut, where it came from, how long it lasted and what were the lyrics it matched. And many of those clips are half a second long!!!!!!!!!! Maybe it’s time for some tea.
Hope you’re having fun.
Mary
Excellent point about the different audiences. I, too, like Leyendecker's work better.
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